Vancouver-basedMobio Identity Systems Inc., the folks behind the Mobio app for Android and iPhone, have just released a report that highlights the QR code use in North America over the last six months of 2010. And it’s huge. We’vebeen talkingabout this innovative new-ish space for a while now, and howmarketers, retailers andcompaniesbig and small are using QR codes toadvertise, engage and sell products. But we didn’t know its use had exploded by 1200 percent....

Music streaming website MOGtoday announcedit will move into the world of consumer electronics as part of a partnership with Samsung, making available its 12 million song catalog to owners of Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players. Samsung has enjoyed success with its range of Smart TVs and Blu-ray players, recently surpassing one million downloads on via its Samsung Apps platform. The new partnership will seeMOG’sapp placed in the What’s New and Lifestyle sections on the store, providing users with an ad-free, unlimited, on-demand access to its entire catalog of songs....

Mojo Themesreports that it has passed the 10,000 user mark, and is about to enter the vicinity of the top 5,000 sites on Alexa. Mojo Themes is a marketplace platform for the sale of premium themes and templates, the most popular of which are WordPress themes. These marketplaces don’t create the products themselves, they simply facilitate the marketing and sales for authors and take a revenue share. Envato’sThemeForestis the 800 pound gorilla in the room, and although many have tried to go up against them, Mojo is the first that has stayed afloat and actually gained some traction in the third-party theme sales market....

We work online, we order food online, we socialize online, (even date online), weconsume newsand media online, so it naturally follows that as bandwidth increases (which it has), that we also watch movies and TV programs online. Over the past few years, high quality sources for movies and TV content on demand have popped up likeNetflix,Hulu,Amazon,iTunesand dozens of smaller services. The content is so accessible, that I cut my cable 4 years ago, bought an HDMI cable and never looked back....

Until a version ofInstagramis available for Android users, it seems there will be a continuous hunt for the best alternative app.Camera360clearly has the monopoly for Android users, whilePicPlzis a popular runner-up. The third and newest app vying for would-be Instagram users on Android isMolome. Molome was originally only available for the Symbian platform at Nokia’sOvi Store, with its developers seemingly going against the grain of their peers. Now, however, it has been launched onAndroidtoo....